Word: correspondent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britons here & there showed signs of progress. In a secondary school in the working-class district of Manchester the children had organized a "Pen Pals Club" to correspond with U.S. moppets in such namesake towns as Manchester, Tex., Manchester, Mich. They steamed labels from cans of Lend-Lease goods, wrote history themes on the towns and States whence they originated...
...fact that although there is sufficient room for all of the students who have made application, supply and demand were out of balance. The House Masters were unable to complete the assignment last week because the number of suites of the various types and prices applied for did not correspond to the categories that were available...
Since September 1940, tall, blond Larry Allen has reported firsthand almost every big British naval action in the,, Mediterranean. In March, when the British in one night in the Battle of Matapan knocked out an Italian battleship and sank a half-dozen cruisers and destroyers, Correspond ent Allen got a grandstand view from the bridge of Admiral Cunningham's flagship Warspite. He was with the British squad ron which blasted 5,000 Nazi troops at tempting a surprise landing at Crete...
...Correspondents. Best-seller among correspondents' books was William Shirer's Berlin Diary ($3), which by breaking down Europe's momentous years into momentous days gave his record the breathlessness of headlines. Runner-up was Virginia Cowles's Looking for Trouble ($3). Author Cowles, not one of the great by-liners, wrote current history with some of the fresh realism of the little maid who from answering doorbells and making up the beds, sees everybody, finds out every thing, at last knows more about what is going on in the house than the masters themselves. Other books...
...those from Bali, reproducing the gamelan (gong) orchestras of the Balinese temples. Balinese gongsters, whose instruments range in timbre from trumpetlike brass gongs to tinkly wooden ones, play complicated rondo-like pieces, entirely without notation; a player remembers his notes by silently reciting a long poem. The Balinese scales correspond roughly to the Western; one of them has notes named ding, dong, deng, dung, dang. The Dutch Governor of Bali discovered a scale not previously identified, and the Fahnestocks recorded it in the singsong of an eight-year-old boy reciting a pornographic fairy tale...